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Stop by the Supercomputers for Scientific Discovery booth (#1312) and learn about Blue Waters, a new supercomputer to be installed soon at the University of Illinois that will do quadrillions of calculations every second!
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Along with Michael Wolfe and Mark R. Fernandez, John Towns will discuss the benefits of GPU technologies as performance accelerators for computationally intensive and high-performance workloads and environments.
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The goal is to provide a comprehensive, powerful, easy-to-use development environment that will improve the way experts develop, debug, optimize, and run their science and engineering applications.
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The cybereducation team at NCSA helps bridge the gap between research and education by conducting activities and programs to disseminate advanced technologies to newas well as establishedcommunities, encouraging them to adopt computational technologies as learning tools.
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Building the world's fastest computer for open research also requires developing the applications that will allow researchers to do their science on the machine. Bill Gropp, the chief applications architect for Blue Waters, tells Access' Barbara Jewett what that work involves and how it feeds into the future of high-performance computing.
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Little is known about the protein molecules involved in touch and auditory function. Now, a team from Harvard University has resolved the atomic-level structure of a protein essential for sound perception using TeraGrid supercomputers..
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